Police association warns Mamdani’s attacks on Netanyahu raise threats for street police during UN summit
“Those same agitators know that the NYPD’s protest response is already hamstrung by the dangerous lawsuit settlement the city signed over the PBA’s opposition. Witnesses said the man yelled “Allahu Akbar” while committing the attacks. “You have spent months fueling hatred, demonizing Israel and legitimizing hostility toward Jews.
- ▪“Those same agitators know that the NYPD’s protest response is already hamstrung by the dangerous lawsuit settlement the city signed over the PBA’s opposition.
- ▪Witnesses said the man yelled “Allahu Akbar” while committing the attacks.
- ▪“You have spent months fueling hatred, demonizing Israel and legitimizing hostility toward Jews.
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The New York Police Benevolent Association warned Mayor Zohran Mamdani that his urging of New Yorkers to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the United Nations annual summit later this year could pose a danger for the city’s law enforcement officers.NYPD Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry said the mayor’s call for protests puts officers in a “terrible position,” particularly because protest response is limited following a lawsuit stemming from the department’s response to the summer of 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.
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